Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Topics: Grief, Grieving
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Topics: Goals
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Topics: Happiness
The consciousness of clean linen is, in, and of itself, a source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean conscience.—A well-ironed collar or a fresh glove has carried many a man through an emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him.
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Topics: Concentration
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